Santa Claus Was Afraid to Pass Through Port-au-Prince, Haiti
...Papa Noël was afraid to pass through on Christmas Day
In the streets of Port-au-Prince. Bullets were being fired in droves
Sporadically, haphazardly. Many people were hiding under beds
Naughty ter...
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Categories:
ubiquitously, black african american, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
ubiquitously, blessing,
Form: Acrostic
The Big 'U'
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ukelele ululating
ubiquitously undulating
underappreciated ultramodern
ultrasonic Ukrainian
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Categories:
ubiquitously, character, tribute, word play,
Form: Alliteration
Why Is It
...Why is it?
the louder
and more ballistic
my self-righteousness
offensively becomes
The more
at night
I feel self-loathing,
when all is quiet
except dark ruminations
filling my silent bedr...
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Categories:
ubiquitously, anxiety, culture, happiness, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Narcissists Anonymous
...I might feel grand
aspiring to omnipotent
omniscience
Whereupon omnipresence
might feel less necessary,
or even possible,
or desirable
In a secularized
reduced
dissociated apartheid,
sa...
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Categories:
ubiquitously, god, health, love, passion,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
A Second Please
...*Image of Loving One More by NS.
A Second Please
Aesthete equip upkeep spade, trowel, and watering pail,
Balters out freely, gagging unwantable, grit travail,
Chrysalism advents t...
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Categories:
ubiquitously, imagery, words,
Form: Abecedarian
Ginnungagap
...Ginnungagap
Before gods and men, when only Darkness was extant, there was the primordial yawning void. In Norse mythology, this was known as Ginnungagap. To the Greeks, the first thing in existenc...
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Categories:
ubiquitously, sound, stars,
Form: Narrative
Of Fatalism
...*Image of Pendulum by Pixabay.
Of Fatalism
'Tis past the eleventh hour,
As time ...,
Here in the bunker,
I walked away from the Atomic Clock whose pendulum terminated its sway,
Walked I, aw...
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Categories:
ubiquitously, hope,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Enough With the Fireworks
...Fireworks are still popping in my neighborhood
Long after July 4th; I keep thinking they’ll stop,
And hope so soon for the sake of brotherhood!
Celebrations are meaningful on their s...
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Categories:
ubiquitously, firework,
Form: Rhyme
No Bags
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If you shop in any New Jersey store,
paper and plastic bags are out the door.
Single-use bags won't be distributed anymore.
That's the new rule ubiquitously as of late.
A new law was en...
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Categories:
ubiquitously, business, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Monk of Aeons
...O thy divine flame till eternity must burn,
Thine thoughts each mortal on crust must learn.
Servest thou each bruised heart in trepidation,
And allurest thou 'em all to peachy innovation.
For,...
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Categories:
ubiquitously, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Reminisce
...REMINISCE
Although the realm is hush,
Encasing with dark haze,
Melancholy visage ubiquitously,
Delaying for the cracking of doleful.
Reminisce HE has elevate.
REMINISCE
Keep your eye to ...
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Categories:
ubiquitously, africa, america,
Form: Bio
The Fifth of July
...*Image of Sun by A Shared Soul.
The Fifth of July
(Pondering A Newness)
A gold sovereign wakes, dimly rises
afar, a relic of sorts once revered the
world round, except occasions ...
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Categories:
ubiquitously, america, celebration, destiny, england,
Form: Free verse
Seasons Winsome
...Spring tantalizingly unfolds vernal, winsome
Blossoms of lilies pristine, undulating to appease
Fawning nectar-dreams adrift on wings of bees
Frolicking tranquility of rustling flowering tr...
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Categories:
ubiquitously, nature, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Ruminating Vagaries of Life May 2nd 2021
...Ruminating vagaries of life May 2nd, 2021
(conceived while in utero
which loosely summarization in toto
of this ordinary Joe Schmoe,
who did wade nine months for a roe
at mercy of obstetrician...
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Categories:
ubiquitously, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
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